Kamloops woman scammed out of $26,500
KAMLOOPS — RCMP say a Kamloops woman has been taken for more than $26,000 by a scammer.
Police say the woman, who is in her 70s, received a call telling her she had won a quarter of a million dollars from Publisher’s Clearing House.
According to the scammer, all she had to do to avoid paying taxes on the winnings was give him her bank account information.
That allowed the suspect to deposit a sum of money into the woman’s chequing account, and she then used Money Mart to transfer it to a person in the Philippines.